Johnny Hughes spake the following on 8/18/2006 2:45 AM:
On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 21:49 -0400, Steve Huff wrote:
On Aug 17, 2006, at 6:17 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
I am building the new CentOSPlus kernel for i386/x86_64.
It is based on the 2.6.9-42.EL kernel that will be part of CentOS-4.4.
Currently it has all the features of the older plus kernels and all the items turned on by the upstream provider in their main kernel ... except that XFS is being removed from this kernel (and added by a standalone module that has newer sgi code for xfs).
I am not going to add patches to the kernel, but I will entertain requests to turn on features that are included and require users to have to recompile their kernels (that don't require adding patches).
despite the fact that you said that you won't patch the kernel, i can't help but submit a plea for a reinstatement of the legacy LSI MegaRAID driver (documented here: http://www.tuxyturvy.com/blog/ index.php?url=archives/4-Installing-RHEL4-on-Systems-with-Legacy- Megaraid-Drivers.html)
i haven't yet encountered a Red Hat/CentOS kernel release under which the legacy megaraid driver didn't build, and i suspect this would be helpful to people other than just me. it installs just find alongside the new megaraid drivers and doesn't conflict with them or confuse kudzu.
please?
-steve
We are working on a CD DriverDisk for CentOS-4.4
We will put this driver as well as other open source drivers on that CD, so you can use them with the DD option to install on CentOS-4.
We will also work out a way for the modules to be moved between kernels or provide them as standalone modules for install.
Thanks, Johnny Hughes
Can you use something like DKMS? I haven't looked at it for a while, but it seemed to make some things more easily portable.